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Boca Grande è la capitale di un piccolo stato dell'America Latina, uno di quei paesi da un colpo di stato all'anno dove non cambia mai niente. Un giorno a Boca Grande arriva Charlotte Douglas, una donna nordamericana smarrita e magnetica. Nessuno sa chi sia, cosa cerchi o cosa ci faccia a Boca Grande. Charlotte è una donna bella e di classe, ricca e affascinante, che in cuore non ha altro che confusione e vuoto: la vita le ha fatto delle prome...

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Read the works discussed in the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. Includes seven books in one volume: the full texts of Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Salvador, Miami, After Henry, Political Fictions, and Where I Was From. Joan Didion's incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction...

From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.

Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of ...

2013 Audie Award Nominee, Short Stories/Collections Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, The Family Stone) performs these classic essays, including the title piece, which will transport the listener back to a unique time and place: the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisc...

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National BestsellerIn these coolly observant essays, Joan Didion looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life." Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and photo ops of three presidential campaigns, one presidential impeachment, and an unforgettable sex scandal, Didion reveals the mechanics of American politics. She tells us the uncomfortable truth...

Blue nights" sono le ore lunghe e luminose della sera che a New York preannunciano il solstizio d'estate, "l'opposto della morte del fulgore, ma anche il suo annuncio". Sono passati sette anni da quando Joan Didion e John Gregory Durine festeggiavano il matrimonio della figlia Quintana Roo nella cattedrale di St. John the Divine in Amsterdam Avenue. Joan Didion ripensa a quel giorno, ai gelsomini del Madagascar nei capelli di Quintana, al fior...

Venti piccoli capolavori firmati da una delle più grandi giornaliste contemporanee che catturano come nessun altro libro lo spirito dell'America e in particolare della California, centro della sua controcultura negli anni sessanta. Venti pezzi in cui lo humour si sposa a un cinismo distaccato, affronta con leggerezza miti e incubi del sogno americano: dalla cronaca nera a un delicato ritratto di John Wayne, un reportage sull'industria matrimon...

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In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic's often tenuous relationship to reality.Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California's romances with land and water, its unacknowl...

From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage-and a life, in good times and bad-that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia...

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul-it remains more than three decades after its original publication ...

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